Beat Michigan, TCU, BYU, and Alabama.
Is that enough?
No Argument here. Utah should be National Champions. The ONLY undefeated team in the nation. The AP can still vote them Champs. It should be at least a split MNC.
Undefeated doesnt even mean anything anymore. Its BS, and we need a ****ing Playoff, there simply is no alternative. It will happen, it may take 10 or 20 years but it will happen. You can still keep the bowls; who wouldnt get paid money for a free vacation and free gifts and publicity? But that's another argument.
The UTES 2008 National Champs!
Yeah the thing that worries me though is they are going to have a 4 team playoff or something lame that is an attempt at fixing things but doesn't really fix it for more than most years.
I really hope the media runs with this Utah thing... If they do it may lead to enough pressure to get a real playoff going. I have a feeling though, that the announcers at the Orange Bowl are going to be gagged and flogged if they even mention Utah or any state close to it during the telecast of the OU/Florida game.
If it's Mushberger and "Herbie" no worries. They are such shills they'll act as if OU and UF are the greatest teams in the history of the universe. This is when that blowhard Brent excels like no other.
They get my vote. 13-0 is not easy. Maybe not the best offense but still effective enough to keep Bama out of it. What makes them mNC caliber is their defense. You can't argue with undefeated.
I actually was really impressed with their offense. They ran up and down the field on the drives that they scored on. I know they had three drives for TDs that looked like pitch and catch practice. That QB and his wideouts had some chemistry going for sure!
Yeah the thing that worries me though is they are going to have a 4 team playoff or something lame that is an attempt at fixing things but doesn't really fix it for more than most years.
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A four team playoff probably wouldn't have solved a damn thing this year. The four teams would have been UF, OU, USC and most likely Texass, or possibly Penn State since they won the Big X and some people still like to pretend that means something. It's highly doubtful that an unbeaten Utah team would have even been included. Obviously, they belonged.
I don't know if they deserve to be #1 or not. I'll see how UF/OU goes before I make that call. But they sure as **** deserved the chance to determine that once and for all on the field, and we deserved the chance to see it... :sad2:
I think if the game were closer, which it wasn't, they would have been challenged to take time off of the clock. They pass A LOT and that stops the clock. Their D won that game.
Utah represented the Mountain West well. The MWC is as worthy as the Big East or MAC to become a BCS conference.
Argue against it all you want...
No arguement beats: Undefeated and won their BCS bowl.
I might also add they beat the team that I believe was #1 for a majority of the season too.
Quick!!! Somebody fedex a case of Coors to bama-chucky.
He's gonna need it.
Exactly, that is why I want a 16 team playoff that gives automatic bids to winners of Conference Championship games and fills the other half dozen or so slots with whoever is ranked highest of those who didn't win the championship games. This will pretty much force the Pac/Big10 to create some sort of championship game or else they have to count on getting the wild card bid by being ranked high enough. Anything less than 16 either doesn't make sense and solves nothing or isn't fair to everyone.
You make a 16 team playoff and the best team will win!
Beat Michigan, TCU, BYU, and Alabama.
Is that enough?
16 teams would be awful, and mid majors don't cause much of a headache to the 4 team playoff model. They could just add a clause to however the teams are selected to stipulate that any undefeated D-1 teams are automatically granted a spot in the playoff,